And article in the Star-Telegramreports that opponents claim the bill encourages doctors to lie about whether a child has disability, thus preventing parents from being able to decide whether they want an abortion.

Supporters of SB 25 like Jennifer Allmon, executive director for the Texas Catholic Conference of Bishops, said it “doesn’t restrict access to or regulate abortion.” According to the Star-Telegram, Allmon said “the bill protects children with disabilities from having parents going in court to say ‘they wish that child had not been born.’”

“We believe that a lawsuit that begins as its premise that ‘we should’ve had the opportunity to kill our disabled child’ sends a terrible message to those disabled children in Texas,” Allmon said. “To hold a physician financially responsible for a disability he did not cause presumes a level of control over human development that physicians and parents simply do not have.”

“It’s not a doctor’s right to manipulate the family by lying, and it is not doctor’s right to decide whether an experimental therapy is worth trying,“ Tiddle told the committee. “There is always chance, there is always hope.”